Atheism Quotations

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

I think comics is a really good way to talk about skepticism and atheism and things like that... it was easy to tell those stories and, I think, helpful to some people to tell them in comic form. Using visuals makes it easier to break stuff down and makes it somewhat easier to understand.

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.

America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.

Hawking has violated the unspoken rules of atheism. He isn't supposed to use words like 'create' or even 'made.' They necessitate a Creator and a Maker. Neither are you supposed to let out that the essence of atheism is to believe that nothing created everything, because it's unthinking.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that.

The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.

If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.